You’ve gotta Rou with it…

The Diary has received an excited e-mail from a PR company working for promotional pen manufacturer Rou Bill (is there anyone without a PR company these days?).

Rock star Noel Gallagher has been photographed near to a Rou Bill “Big Pen” (Why it’s called Big Pen the Diary isn’t sure. Try holding your pen in that pose. It will look as big as the Big Pen).

Rou Bill already knows the Big Pen is the superstar of pens, apparently, so the Diary can’t say whether this is a picture of Noel meeting Big Pen, or Big Pen meeting Noel. What it can say, however, is that a Big Pen can write “X” plenty of times.

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